To open the new Fort Mason Campus, SFAI is commissioning artists over the next year to share new works in, around, and beyond the building. Here's a preview of what's on, and (also) what's to come.

This series is developed in partnership with SFAI and THE OTHER THING (a creative studio formed in 2013 as an offshoot of THE THING Quarterly).

Alicia McCarthy

Alum and faculty Alicia McCarthy (BFA 1994) kicks off this series with a mural of interwoven color, energy, and gesture—visible throughout the entire space.

Sans façon

You are here, an outdoor installation by art collective Sans façon, debuted for the Opening Spectacle on November 10. The blimp-sized inflatable arrow will fly above our pier as a beacon for the new campus.

Jon Rubin

Jon Rubin's newly-commissioned project will reveal the hidden histories of SFAI in the form of famous and infamous retired student art pieces. Descriptions of these projects will be displayed on banners, which will hang from the ceiling rafters—much like the retired jerseys of famous basketball players.

Bill Fontana

Internationally-renowned sound artist Bill Fontana will re-present his 1981 work Landscape Sculpture with Foghorns. Originally installed on the eastern wall of Pier 2, the temporally-specific installation layers and overlaps with the contemporary soundscape of the San Francisco waterfront.